Cee Lo Green and Jordan Sparks have been cast for the movie ‘Sparkle’.

Congrats to indie band The Jezabels who have debuted at no. 2 on the ARIA chart with their debut album ‘Prisoner’.

Soul and funk legend Sly Stone is now homeless and living in a van on the streets of Los Angeles.

Kim Wilde will head back to Australia at the end of October for the Rewind 80s Festival.

R&B singer Vesta Williams, who hit the R&B top 10 with Sweet, Sweet Love and Congratulations, was found dead Thursday in a Southern California hotel room. She was 53.

After 60 years and more than 70 albums, Tony Bennett is poised to have his first number 1 album. According to Hits Daily Double, Duets II will sell between 160 and 170,000 copies outdistancing Lady Antebellum who will move 140 to 150,000 copies of their album which is in its second week of release.

In 1994 I had the pleasure of interviewing George Harrison. It was the only interview he did with Australia in the decade before his untimely death in 2001.

The Universal Music Group is planning on increasing music sales the good old-fashioned way … by advertising. 

Radiohead release the final instalment of their remix vinyls on Monday.

INXS have a new song at their website and the lead vocal sounds a lot like U2’s Bono.

Tom Hamilton, bassist for Aerosmith, has posted a video on the band's site updating everyone on the status of the new album.

Following closely on the heals of the announcement of the Billy Joel box set comes word of an even bigger set for Leonard Cohen.

Guns N' Roses are hitting the road in the U.S. for the first time in five years.

When R.E.M. completed their Accelerate tour on November 18, 2008 in Mexico City, nobody would have imagined that it was their last performance.

Someone should tell the good people at Australia’s biggest telco Telstra that Rebecca Black’s 15 minutes of fame ended … well 15 minutes after we first heard of her.

Baron Wolman, the original music photographer for Rolling Stone magazine, will be at The Raw Gallery in South Melbourne for the start of his Every Picture Tells A Story exhibition.

Music at the Healesville Track is returning for its second year with Joe Camilleri, Shane Howard and John Schumann as well as Mick Thomas, Rebecca Barnard, Monique Brumby and Damian Howard.

The Little Willies will release their second album in January, 2012.

EMI Records is releasing the most comprehensive package of the classic Pink Floyd ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ this week.

Joe Camilleri is a father again. 63-year old Joe and his partner, signer Atlanta Coogan, welcomed daughter Aurora Lily into the world earlier this week.

Victoria will play host to music festival Shine On in Victoria’s Pyrenees Ranges in November.

Sophia Brous is planning a run of interstate dates for the launch of her debut EP.

Queensland band The Amity Affliction will be released worldwide through Roadrunner Records.

A brand new Jason Mraz song has gone live at his official website.

The next Taylor Swift album will be a live album from her current Speak Now World Tour.

The new Alice Cooper album ‘Welcome 2 My Nightmare’, the sequel to his classic 1975 ‘Welcome To My Nightmare’, features guest appearances from Ke$ha, Lou Reed and the original Alice Cooper Band members Denis Dunaway, Michael Bruce and Neal Smith.

The story of Ozzy Osbourne will be told via his son Jack. Jack Osbourne is the producer of ‘God Bless Ozzy Osbourne’, the official documentary of the iconic Black Sabbath singer.

After 30 years, REM have decided to call it quits.

Queen drummer Roger Taylor is holding auditions to put together a Queen cover band to mark the 40th anniversary of the band.

It is time to toss the “supergroup” word around again. This time the band is The International Swingers, made up of members of Blondie, The Sex Pistols. The Cult and Supernaut.